Posterior inferotemporal neuron activities during a visual fixation task and a visual tracking task.
Single neuron activities were recorded from the posterior inferotemporal cortex (PIT) while a monkey was fixating or tracking a target spot. Of 168 recorded neurons, 86 were activated by the extrafoveal slit stimuli; 48 were activated during eye fixation. Twenty were activated only during tracking, and not by fixation or a extrafoveal slit stimuli. It was suggested the PIT participates not only in the perception mechanisms but also in the foveation mechanisms such as fixation or tracking.
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D000882:Haplorhini; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*